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[–] [email protected] 122 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

They can move to the U.S. and then pay tariffs to import the parts, and have a smaller international demand for the product do to retaliatory tariffs and just straight avoidance of U.S. products while making their product in a higher cost to operate area. OR they can build a mine, pay higher lifting costs, higher wages, produce a much more expensive product of shitty quality to keep the price hopefully low enough that they can still have a demand for the product abroad, but everyone will coorelate their American products as shit because they cut corners to try to keep the costs low enough while having higher expenses. So no one wants their product. Or they could not cut corners and make a great product that costs so much that their market shrinks down to inoperable levels and go out of business.

[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 month ago

You’re not getting it. He said it in ALL CAPS, so the globally-connected economy doesn’t actually exist. Tariffs punish BAD GUYS and have no effect on GOOD GUYS. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

[–] [email protected] 116 points 1 month ago (1 children)

“Donald Trump was the dumbest goddam student I ever had.”

Professor William T. Kelley, who taught marketing at the Wharton School of Business and Finance when the orange one was a student there (source)

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago (4 children)

He also doesn't read. Ever. The only book he is known to possess (a gift) is one with speeches by Hitler. He probably hasn't even read that one. He had also real trouble reading the teleprompter during the campaign trail and seemingly ignored it most of the time.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, I read that too. Not the president the US needed, as he is simply unsuitable for this office due to his lack of education alone, but apparently the one the country deserves, as he was elected despite everything everyone can and should know about him.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

Over half of US citizens can't read over a sixth grade level. So he really does represent a majority of US Americans in that regard.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh, sure. Spend billions on moving factories to a xenophobic, undereducated, and burgeoning fascist society instead of expanding into more stable, emerging markets without an unstable fuckwit for a leader.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean, that's exactly what happened with China

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (11 children)

Yeah because it was cheaper labor. The US does not have that level of cheap labor.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago

It doesn't have that level YET.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 month ago

Yeah they need to move their forests and mines to the USA!

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Oh, so immigrants are ok if they're companies?

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago (1 children)

his audience wouldn't notice the issue with this claim

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Mainly because they are SO SO SO fucking dumb.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Dude, they did, under Biden's IRA. The one you just tore up.

Jesus, dude. This guy is too old, stupid and evil to lead.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

This guy is too old, stupid and evil to lead.

Putin: perfect!

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Trump always talks like a dummy who is fed half baked ideas by someone only slightly smarter than he is.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Isn't that exactly what's happening?

He sounds like a toddler who learnt a new word explained to them by their slightly older cousin.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I thought he was against immigration.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Illegal immigration. That's what he's against.

No, I don't like Trump, but I don't feel the need to let people lie about him. I'd rather shit on him accurately, thank you very much.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

See- this is a problem. Illegal immigration means one thing, but people hear it and think of a family speaking spanish in the grocery store and assume them to be what 'illegal immigrants' are. People just ascribe anything vagely unknown to them as 'illegal immigrants' and want it gone not realizing that most of the time the people they are imagining are here legally. It's still racism but with a technically safe cover word, but many are hearing one thing and thinking another.

So when everyone is talking about illegal immigrants they could mean completely different things depending on who you talk to.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

What they mean is:

Hispanic person who went through years of wait-lists and followed every step of the process to the letter of the law = Illegal Immigrant

White person who bribed immigration officials to get expedited entry = Legal Immigrant

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Don't forget literal war refugees given legal status = also illegal

https://lemm.ee/post/57444042

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Unless you provide $5 million, then it doesn't matter, right?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Or if you're a Ukrainian refugee.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

Or they can just stop providing products and services to america and expand in Asia, Europe and Australia

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

Lol... that's insanely hilarious.... or is it hilariously insane? I can't keep track with this nut job

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

So he wants me to migrate to the US and start a business?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Only if your complexion allows you to use mayonnaise as foundation.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

No migrate, just start business è_é

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

When your president failed ~~law school~~ kindergarden.

Here, corrected that for you

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Does he really think businesses pay the tariffs? I doubt it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

He knows they don't but he doesn't have to pay them and he couldn't bring himself to care about anyone else.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

He means he'll drop tariffs in companies start building here. Problem is, factory owners aren't stupid enough to invest in a factory that will become obsolete when these idiot tariffs are dropped.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Our president is still trying to make this moron understand that he needs to be less of a bully with his country's friends. She is the only hope, short-term, to avoid severe consequences of tariffs in North America. I hope she's got intelligence and patience for both of them.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do you mean Claudia Sheinbaum? (It isn't clear who you're talking about from your comment, but she would make sense.)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yes, Sheinbaum. Sorry, I thought being her the only other president in North America would make it more clear.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

... I was wondering if it was a musk joke...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

We like our arguments spoon fed, here in 'Murica.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Well naturally, if all the companies move to the US, there won't be tariffs because there won't be trade. With the way the US is going these days, I'm wondering if the US might come to the companies instead

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Step 1: Move to the US

Step 2: I.C.E. deports all immigrants (both lawful and unlawful ones)

Step 3: ???

Step 4: Declare Bankrupcy? (because you don't have anyone to hire, since, you know, they deported everyone)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The problem are the shit-talkers. There are so many advisers talking shit to Trump and he's just repeating it. There's more shit coming out of his mouth than there is in his diaper - and there's alot of shit in his diaper. Trump may be dumb, but he's still the best politician in america. He reads a room and gets his message across better than anyone. Too bad he's a rapist, misogynistic, convicted criminal. And so easily influenced by Putin and the Evangelicals. If you want to know what Trump is doing an why, look at the goals and methods of these two.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Failed law school? He failed elementary school

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

If the rest of the western powers divest amd braindrain from the US, can they afford to upkeep their nuclear arsenal?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

IF US COMPANIES HAVE NO MATERIALS, THERE ARE NO JOBS.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

He actually thinks companies can say "hey, let's move all our shit to the US!" and they can snap their fingers and they're instantly here. Like they don't have to buy land, build factories, setup supply chains and work out logistics that would take a long time to do. Fucking moron.

Dumbass didn't learn from the Foxconn shit in Wisconsin lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

If the tariffs work, then how are tariffs going to fund the government? Seems like a lie

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